14 Cameron, Hymenoptera, from Greymoiith. 



flagellum darker above ; the scape with a few punctures 

 on the under side. Head dark-rufous ; the front and two 

 large marks on the sides above the clypeus, black ; the 

 vertex strongly punctured ; the face and clypeus with the 

 punctures much fewer and more widely separated ; the 

 face in the middle with a few fine transverse striations ; the 

 front largely excavated, smooth and shining. The eyes 

 distinctly margined ; the inner orbits narrowly lined with 

 yellow. Mesonotum rufous, a broad black band down the 

 centre and a narrower one down the sides ; closely, but 

 not strongly, punctured. Scutellum rufous, the apex broadly 

 yellow ; the apex almost impunctate ; the remainder bear- 

 ing clearly separated, moderately large, punctures ; the post- 

 scutellum for the greater part yellow. At the base of the 

 scutellum is a wide, deep curved furrow. The median 

 segment has a gradually rounded slope to the apex, which 

 is oblique ; it is smooth and shining, almost bare ; the 

 supramedian area is large, somewhat wider than long, 

 rounded at the base, the sides straight, oblique ; the apex 

 rounded on its inside ; the supra-external area^ are finely 

 punctured ; the posterior median area is roundly ex- 

 cavated, not much narrowed towards the apex, and 

 finely and closely punctured ; the posterior intermedian 

 arese are not so closely, but much more strongly, punctured ; 

 and, at the top, is a yellowish mark ; the pro- and meso- 

 pleurse are strongly punctured, the former obscurely 

 striated at the apex ; the mesopleurae black, except a 

 large rufous mark in the middle at the base and a larger 

 one lower down at the apex ; the sternum for the most part 

 black ; the metapleurse very smooth, shining, impunctate, 

 black, except over the coxse. Legs dark rufous ; the 

 anterior brighter in tint ; the hinder femora much darker, 

 abdomen smooth and shining, the three basal segments 

 red ; the apical black. 



